Wildfire monitoring for forest carbon projects
Support your REDD+, afforestation, reforestation, and restoration projects with historical fire analysis, satellite monitoring, fire spread modelling and burned area assessment. Powered by data from more than 35 satellites, OroraTech helps your team evaluate potential project sites, identify emerging fires, understand their development and assess affected areas.
Wildfire monitoring for forest carbon projects
Support your REDD+, afforestation, reforestation, and restoration projects with historical fire analysis, satellite monitoring, fire spread modelling and burned area assessment. Powered by data from more than 35 satellites, OroraTech helps your team evaluate potential project sites, identify emerging fires, understand their development and assess affected areas.
Wildfire risk is carbon permanence risk
Wildfires can release stored carbon, damage ecosystems and disrupt project operations. For forest carbon developers, managing this risk starts with understanding a potential site’s fire history and continues through operational monitoring, response and post-fire assessment.
New project sites requires past fire activity
When evaluating locations for afforestation, restoration or REDD+ projects, developers need to understand their wildfire history. Comparing past fire activity across sites helps teams identify patterns and make better-informed decisions about location and risk management.
Remote projects are difficult to monitor
Large project areas and limited access make it difficult for field teams to identify every emerging fire. Satellite observations complement patrols and local reports, helping teams assess activity across remote areas.
A wildfire alert is only the start
Teams need to understand where a fire is, how it is developing and when it could reach their project or assets. Bringing this information into one platform helps them prioritize incidents and coordinate their response.
Post-fire reporting needs reliable evidence
Following a fire, developers need to establish which areas were affected and communicate with project stakeholders. Burned area mapping provides spatial evidence to support further assessment and reporting.
From project site selection to informed wildfire response
See fire histories before selecting a project site
Analyze historical fire activity within defined project boundaries using a comprehensive global dataset of active fire observations. Compare candidate areas for afforestation, restoration or REDD+ projects and use the findings to inform site selection and wildfire preparedness.
Detect and monitor fires across your portfolio
View satellite-detected wildfire activity across your project areas in one platform. Configure alerts to help your team identify incidents requiring attention.
Understand fire exposure and prioritize response
Use fire spread modelling informed by current weather conditions, topography and vegetation to anticipate fire movement. Distance-to-asset and time-to-asset information helps teams understand how close a fire is and when it could reach a project area or asset.
Assess the area affected after a fire
Use burned area analysis to understand the spatial extent of fire impacts and support recovery planning and stakeholder reporting.
Wildfire intelligence before, during and after a fire
Designed for carbon project developers and forestry teams, our solutions deliver the critical intelligence needed to safeguard forest assets, enhance carbon sequestration credibility, and maintain the project’s credit integrity.
Global wildfire monitoring powered by 35+ satellites
OroraTech combines data from more than 35 satellites, including its own thermal satellites and partner missions, to monitor wildfire activity worldwide. Bring observations across your forest carbon project portfolio into one platform, track detected fires and receive alerts to support your team’s response.
Understand when and where a fire could reach your assets
Anticipate wildfire movement with fire spread modelling that incorporates current weather conditions, topography and vegetation. Understand which parts of your project could be affected and use distance-to-asset and time-to-asset information to assess immediate exposure. These insights help teams prioritize incidents, coordinate field response and prepare for fires approaching project boundaries.
Map fire impacts to support post-event assessment
Identify the area affected by a wildfire with satellite-based burned area analysis. Use the resulting maps to support field assessments, recovery planning and communication with project stakeholders.
Built for project teams managing wildfire risk
Portfolio visibility
Monitor wildfire activity across multiple project areas in one platform.
Alerts for your team
Configure notifications to inform and support your local team’s incident assessment and fire response.
Site selection
Compare historical fire activity across candidate project areas to inform location decisions and preparedness.
Workflow integration
Use optional API access to bring wildfire information into existing systems.
Immediate fire exposure
Use fire spread modelling, distance-to-asset and time-to-asset information to understand approaching threats and prioritize response.
Post-fire evidence
Use burned area maps to support further assessments and stakeholder communication.
Questions about wildfire monitoring for carbon projects
How does OroraTech support forest carbon projects?
OroraTech supports forest carbon projects from site evaluation through operational wildfire management. Analyze historical fire activity across candidate project areas, monitor emerging fires and use fire spread modelling to understand potential exposure—including distance and estimated time to assets. After a fire, burned area analysis helps teams assess affected areas and support stakeholder reporting.
What does OroraTech add beyond NASA FIRMS?
NASA FIRMS is a valuable source of public satellite fire observations. OroraTech aggregates data from substantially more satellites, including its own thermal satellites, partner missions, and NASA FIRMS, to provide broader observation coverage.
The platform also groups individual hotspot detections into fire clusters and includes fire confidence information, helping teams interpret activity at the incident level. Portfolio monitoring, configurable alerts, fire spread modelling and burned area analysis bring these observations into an operational workflow.
Can OroraTech provide data to help us select a new project site?
Yes. Our solution can deliver insights to help you analyze historical satellite-detected fire activity within defined polygons and compare potential locations for afforestation, restoration or REDD+ projects. This provides evidence to inform site selection and wildfire management planning alongside other environmental, social and project feasibility assessments.
Can OroraTech monitor projects in remote locations?
Yes. Satellite-based monitoring provides visibility across remote forest carbon project areas without installing on-site detection hardware. Coverage and observation frequency vary by location and satellite availability. Our team can explain the monitoring capabilities relevant to your project.
How does fire spread modelling help us understand immediate exposure?
OroraTech’s fire spread modelling incorporates current weather conditions, topography and vegetation to anticipate fire movement. Distance-to-asset and time-to-asset information shows how close a fire is and estimates when it could reach a project area or asset, helping teams prioritize their response.
Can OroraTech calculate carbon credits lost in a wildfire?
Burned area analysis identifies the spatial extent of fire impacts. It does not independently determine emissions or the number of carbon credits affected. Those calculations require additional project information and the applicable carbon accounting methodology.
How can wildfire monitoring strengthen a project’s carbon rating assessment?
Wildfire monitoring helps developers demonstrate how they identify and manage a material risk to carbon permanence. Historical fire analysis, operational monitoring and documented response procedures provide evidence that rating agencies can consider when assessing a project’s wildfire resilience.
Combined with effective field operations and other risk mitigation measures, these capabilities can strengthen the project’s risk management profile and support its rating assessment.
How is monitoring priced?
Pricing depends on the size of the monitoring area and the selected services. Packages can include Detection & Monitoring, Fire Spread, Burned Area analysis and optional API access. Contact us for a proposal tailored to your project or portfolio.
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Trusted by industry leaders across the globe
Permian Global
"In Brazil’s Rio Cautário project, we managed to reach zero fires in the protected area thanks to the combination of community training and satellite alerts from OroraTech. That progress also helped us improve our project rating from A to AA, increasing both the value and credibility of our carbon credits."
Javier R., Remote Sensing Analyst
Katingan Mentaya Project
”Information from OroraTech’s Wildfire Solution allows for earlier hotspot detection and monitoring of areas at risk of forest fires. This service also provides practical reports that use 20+ satellite sources and wildfire algorithms, offering a confidence level that aids in mitigation strategies. Overall, OroraTech significantly aids mitigation efforts against forest and land fires in the Project area.”
I Gede Widyana Sukarsa Danu, Head of Mendawai Zone
Reinventing fire management at the Katingan Mentaya
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Tell us where your existing or proposed project is located, its approximate area and what you want to understand about wildfire activity. We’ll demonstrate the relevant capabilities—from historical fire analysis to monitoring and response planning—and discuss a service package suited to your needs.
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